Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-03
TRAIN ROBBERY Cases.
The Cases Of The Alleged Train Rob-
bsrs Come Up Before the United
Safes Commissioner
TIES .maay of the Route Agent, Con-
drc.or and Express Messenger
4maaHl OF Booty Secured.
-..~e Erspnrraut Points Brought Out by
74 sheriff OF EIIiambpn County
who treated Ban bour,


.-as. r.gl-r cases came up before United
S-.-. Commissioner Ruggies to-day.
Nj Buck Walton, representing the prts-
a--- asked whether the government in
ta-a. II use Buckley as q witness or
ra STUART, the government assistant
s.g. said ne did not know. Joe
Rs- mr. ii williamson county was put
N rial, 81 severance having been granted
between na two Crafts and the two
r-s.-rs Following are some of the
point. 2 TIC testimony, which Was
{. K. Sp1udiug, route agent-The mail
VS.. detained on the l6t1
ms. So Mcneil station, per
9ga. twenty minutes II was q few
minutes -eiOre 10 O'Clock in the evening.
Mcneil Is 8 regular stopping place. The
porter started 10 90 forward Is usual 70
asg Us on the crossing. He and the con-
tnc.or we're ordered back, Snd the train
was held, I suppose, for the purpose OF
~5rHag Inc express car. 1t was the
nora bound train. We usually stop
about i've minutes. The first iutimGciOn
rrat of anything wrong was an order to
r-. back into tn car. This was followed
Immediately by shots. l lay down for
couple # minutes. man then
came up and ordered me to
open she door Win the orGer, Hands
Dap. 30 monkey business aud you'll not
aurt" Another man came up and they
asked if any one else was III the car. Nr.
Woods then came forward. One OF them
ssd Hand OveI your cash, boys" We
.g.triu we had none. He sSid: All ave
Won anv Ie1isteTs?'' or /" Hand over your
registers" I told MIN w had none as
q. #sv kan carried them. lie replied:
WI we i0u't went them anyway. it's
- Gould wye ere touching Tonight"
d..r. think / ever saw the defendant
before today; dCn'g think I could
recognize any Of the robbers. The COun-
--g -round Mcneil is very rocky and I'M
even. The timber IS small underground,
should csil 70. I saw 8 revolver when
the man told me 10 come to the door. He
has, directed toward me The man who
sad ne did not want the registers was
BIZ. armed.
Cr0sS-eXam ued-AIr =. 3. Woods
was en- the car with me. None OF them
entered thecar. 1t was mail car No. So.
The mai. uas in both ends of the car.
The men appeared a. the door on
side. was ordered to
walk up TO the door. 1t was after they
came back from the express car that they
asked about the registers. The one VINO
ordered me 10 throw open the door " Mt
20 tle rear end Of the train, leaving one
-r two with Us. This man was Inc enc
VINO asked about the registers. II was
sill another one who said ne did not
want the registers. | saw five men in
front OF my door 1T one time.
Hswklus-I am s Missouri Pacific Rail
way conductor. ! was in charge OF the
train that was stopped at Mcneil.
Inc train was surrounded by
len or twelve armed men. 1t was $3.50 p.
H. Our regular stopping time is IS,
usually for one minute. We were de-
famed thirty minutes. They took the
engineer ard fireman Of and sent them
- the smoking-CaT. l saw the porter
sgu.inS with two men and started TO-
ward them with my pistol in my hsud.
man with 4 Winchester VINO or
a--ed me 10 drop my pistol. l aid so,
when it went OF, and ne fired ct me. /
-a,real,d, end as ! did so was fired at
SEA q. They kept yelling st
ne passengers to keep their heads in the 1
car, and now end then firing their guns
on. don't think I could recognize any
oi tlem. They broke into the express /
car and robbed i.
right Of the 18Th. The defendant looks .
very much like the man who had the rife /
on NE lie had on white hat and coat /
could not say positively that this is the .
ms1, but this man is about the ssme size f.
and general appearance. | was about |
.lree feet from the man.
a. i. NOrthEker-I live at DeDiSOn. I (
sM with the Pacific Express Company
raGning on trans Nos. l and >. | had
clarge Of the express and baggage on the
train That was TO5ted. 1t was robbed CT
5000 IN currency, silver and gold, aud
about $1,000 in pay checks OF the railway
company. ] don't know the values of the
currency.
John T. OIive-I am sheriff of Will
smsOn county. / know the defendant.
nave known him shout three years. |
arrested him last Saturday for robbing
he train al Mcneil. After the robbery l
went to the scene. 1t vas
ABOUT the 18th or the l9sh.
We struck ous 20 hunt for g trail and
struck one We first found some foot
IsCkS, then some horse tracks. We
nailed them to where the horses had been
ted shout 100 yards from the depot. l
.gund where small Ere had been
built 1t seemed that they had
.unched there. There was q greasy stick
ana also g part of 8 copy of the William
son County sun OF May with the name
Of l. J. Barbour on it. The tracks were
al fresh, and The ln6icstiuns were !
mat the camp was Of the
night before. We came to another
camp about q mile of, where they left
trajl sDd some money packages. The
trail was northweslerly aud would take
rs west of Georgetown. The county is
rough. We picked up the packages and
s. or 81 ia silver. We followed tue
trail about mile further and
il seemed 10 split Up. The prisoner is a
son Of l. j. Barbour. When l arrested
the prisoner l told him what l srrested {
him fOr-the robbery. He asked me for !
my papers. I told him TO be in 8 hurry, ;
That it was getting late and l hadn't !.
time to fool away. When l arrested him
he was trying TO catch horse in the
Aeld. He had mare saddled just aside {
the fence. l had no further conversation !
with him until l cautioned him that {
his statements could be used 9
against him. He said then 8
that he was not in the robbery; that he t
6s-- Nothing 70 do with 1t, and that the |
ST., taken from him was his brothers, land S
had been in his possession for four '
months for his brother who WAS e